I wanted to make mine more all-season friendly, so I decided to leave out the berries and such and use more muted colors. As for the method, I didn’t take any actual pictures during the process because I was sort of making it up (shocker, no?). I chose 3 pink paint colors (Folk Art, from AC Moore)-which I diluted and/or mixed until I got a color I liked. I had 3 plastic cups that I mixed various colors in. Then I dunked each filter in a color, squeezed it out, and hung it up to dry. I’d add brown or more pink to change the color of the paint water as I continued dying the filters. For the light creamy ones, I used strong brewed tea. To get a cool natural gradient look you can use a paint brush to dab different colors on the edges of the filter.

Once the filters were dry (which didn’t take as long as I thought it would), I began making the flowers. I followed the above tutorial exactly (which was a new way of making flowers for me!).***Update: My flower making tutorial can be seen here*** Instead of my usual foam wreath form, I decided to try one of the floral wire ones (like these at Save on Crafts).

I wrapped it in strips of burlap (that I had on hand) secured with hot glue, and it worked perfecftly! Bonus: it’s like 1/4 the price of the same size styrofoam wreath. Then I began gluing the flowers on, clustering some colors in certain areas, but also keeping it a bit random. It didn’t take long for it to really come together and look amazing. I finished it off with a wide green ribbon that I got on clearance at Michael’s. The Dollar Tree is a great place to find ribbon as well.

Right now this beauty is in my booth, but if no one snatches it up I’ll be bringing it home with me!

This is truly gorgeous! Simple but beautiful. I can see doing this wreath for every season. I am not creative by nature but this really inspired me. i look forward to viewing your other projects. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I am making one of these this weekend, I cannot wait till it is done, I am really excited!! trial and error, I dis figure out an easier way to make the flowers, I am very pleased at how this is turning out! thanks for the pin 🙂

Found you via Pinterest – can I honestly say that your wreath is even prettier than the inspiration (sorry, don’t mean to hurt Jones Design’s feelings)? Well it is! Love the colors and the faded look. Thanks for your tutorial – now I need to pin it for myself!

i want to make this, well technically, two…. i want to make a 30 for my inlaws anni party that i am planning.. i absolutely love how this looks tho. any pointers would be greatly appreciated. also i looked for the flower tutorial and couldn’t find it…

FYI, you can make your own foam wreath forms for 97 cents at the hardware store. Here’s the link I found on Pinterest! http://pinterest.com/pin/174162710559457213/
(copied from the link/ GOOD TO KNOW: a great tip for making a wreath: go to the plumbing department at Home Depot and grab a six foot long piece of foam tubing for $.97!! snip the length you want and duct tape the ends together.)

Do you have the tutorial on how to make the flowers up? I tried to find it but for some reason it won’t bring it up. I LOVE this! I’m an artist. I paint children’s art for a living but I also bust out some other artsy things as well. I would LOVE to make one of these for my house! Thank you!!!

This is gorgeous! I actually like your version much better than the original!! We to have a Keurig (how awesome is it?!) so I’m gonna have to buy coffee filters to make one but I’m thinking it would be so cute in my coming daughter’s nursery in the pinks and grays I’m using! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

Rachelle- It’s hard to recall, I used 3 stacks from a bag we had…must have been a large pack. I honestly have never bought coffee filters, so I don’t know what quantities they come in. I’m planning on making another one, and I’ll keep better track and update the post. Sorry!

I’m in the process of making it right now, and the colors aren’t coming out as strong as yours did. They all come out very light. I keep adding paint but it’s not making much of a difference. How did you get them to dye so well? Thanks for the help in advance! =)

April- What colors are you using (definitely use saturated colors, not pastel)? I used quite a bit of paint and not much water to get dark colors. I also like to paint them on a stack of newspaper versus dunk them. Next week I’ll be posting pictures of my method, but for now I’d try adding less water and possible trying food colors instead. Hope that helps!

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This looks beautiful! I was amazed at how easy it was to make the flowers (did a trial one without painting it. I went full scale and was going to make two wreaths (one for my mom & one for my mother-in-law). Holy crap! These took forever to dry (I now see that you did say 30 minutes each). They take quite a while to make each individual flower too. Kudos to you! I’m half way done with my first one after spending most of Sunday painting & starting the process.

I made this and it is so beautiful! I have gotten a ton of positive feed back! And I do a lot of wreaths with yarn and such and I use pool noodles!! I cut them, hot glue the ends together and while I’m holding it together for the glue to dry my hubby duct tapes the crap out of it in that area! Works great and noodles are only a dollar at the dollar tree!!

Mary- I would love to share, but I basically mixed all the colors from some pinks, reds, and browns…nothing straight from the bottles. That’s my favorite way 🙂 Peachy pinks and taupe-y pinks are what I started with I think, then I added more red or brown to create different shades. All of the colors are the little $1-$2 bottles from the craft store.

Started mine yesterday, the flowers are a little time consuming but worth it! Mine is a variety of purple hues, I started really light in color (once the color dries its a lot lighter than the color in the bowl you mix). I’m super excited to finish it! Thank you for inspiring me!

Thanks! Its taken me days since I can only work on it between work, kids’ school, soccer practice and everything else I take on. It will be worth the wait…I actually will start putting flowers on the wreath this weekend! 🙂

Brianna- I can make the wreath, but no one who has ever inquired has actually ordered one. I think the shipping is cost prohibitive, and I’ve been quoting $50 because it takes me MANY hours to make one. With how little it costs to make in materials, I would definitely attempt it yourself! If you’re still interested, shoot me an email. Thanks!!

Finished mine today, took about 19 hrs from painting to the bow. I used a pool noodle that I cut length wise then in half. Urs is amazing and mines ok looking lol. Is there an easier way to make the flowers that u don’t have to cut? And I had issues hot gluing the flowers to the wreath, they didn’t want to stay in place, any tips?

Jennie- I’m not sure of another way to make the flowers (generally I’m pretty bad at paper crafts…I have to really love it to try it haha). What kind of colors did you use? I think making flowers in natural colors helps with the realistic factor. Sometimes I find that hot glue doesn’t do well with styrofoam/foam…did you try a high temp gun?

I appreciated your pictures, your directions and the link that you followed. I had a lot of fun making one. I learned a lot and can’t wait to make another one. I like how open your flowers are. Did you do anything special in the wrapping process to create that look? Mine were either tightly wound or huge! Here is a link to my completed wreath, sans bow, on Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/pin/300474606358664875/ Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Thanks so much for this! I made a wreath as well using a yellow and a bit of green… those two colors diluted differently and mixed have me a ton of variety for merry l my wreath! I used both white and Brown filters and the Brown ones came out beautifully saturated and earthy and the white gives brightness. Wonderful!
Thanks so much again!

Ughh I’m frustrated! The Cora are not coming out the same as yours! I understand you mixed in brown and only used 3 different bottles of shades of pink.. But could you post which colors those three bottles were? Also I see green I. There and off white… So did you ise more than just 3 shades of pink/ brown to make muddier? Also are you still selling these just in case I can’t get the colors lol? Thanks for your help!

I’m sorry Ashley, it’s been awhile and I don’t recall. I would go with a light, medium, and darker pink or coral and just add brown until you like the color. I did stain some in strong brewed tea from what I remember. Good luck!